Video Game Counseling

02/16/2024

08/27/2023

🎮 Unlocking Mental Wellness with Video Game Therapy on Nintendo Switch

🌟 Therapeutic Potential of Gaming

🤝 Nintendo Switch cooperative games are more than just fun; they're a tool for therapy, focusing on skills like communication, teamwork, and problem-solving.
🛠 Therapeutic Strategies

🎨 Align gaming with therapy goals like creativity and cooperation.
🧩 Build rapport through puzzle-solving games.
📊 Rate anxiety levels before and after gaming for real-time insights.
🎮 Top Games for Therapy

Overcooked 2

🗨 Enhances communication and stress management.
🔄 Useful for couples and groups.
Luigi’s Mansion 3

👻 Builds courage and collaboration skills.
🧭 Great for family therapy sessions.
Rocket League

🤝 Fosters teamwork and strategic planning.
👫 Helpful for social skills.
Animal Crossing

🏡 Encourages creativity and long-term planning.
💡 Useful for individual and family goals.
Splatoon 2

🌈 Promotes adaptive thinking and flexibility.
🎯 Good for groups focusing on resilience.
📝 Why It Matters

🌈 By connecting gaming to real-world scenarios, therapy can be engaging, meaningful, and effective.
👀 Interested in Learning More?

📚 Check out our comprehensive guide to integrate these games into your therapeutic practice.

https://videogamecounseling.com/video-game-therapy-on-the-nintendo-switch-teamwork-strategy-and-fun-in-gaming/

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Explore therapeutic gaming on Nintendo Switch. Enhance communication, teamwork, creativity, and more through cooperative games in mental health care.

09/24/2022

Officially backed by research, video games in therapy can help with self-expression, therapeutic alliance, social development, self-control, and many more things to be talked about in future posts.

The information was gathered from the book, "Game Play: Therapeutic Use of Games with Children and Adolescents" by Jessica Stone, PhD. I highly recommend this book for further reading and sources for research.

If you'd like to learn more about applying these therapy skills in your practice, schedule a consultation through:

email: [email protected]
website: www.videogamecounseling.com

09/05/2022

Reasons why video games can be used in therapy!
Video games have one of many tools to encourage people to start or continue therapy.

Therapy can be intimidating, and I do whatever it takes to create the right environment for you.

Before video games, I would do walk-and-talk therapy at the park, use physical activities, play music, and provide art supplies for my clients.

If you want to design a therapy session that works best for you, then contact us at our website (www.videogamecounseling.com) or email ([email protected])

08/27/2022

08/11/2022

Therapy group geared toward gamers to build social, communication, and coping skills for a better year is starting!

The group will also help gamers connect with others as they open up, connect, and support each other.

1)Practice social, communication, and coping skills in a virtual and gaming setting.
2)Learn to open up, build connections, and create memories with your peers.
3)Cultivate awareness of healthy technology use.

80 Minute Meetings Weekly; $85/meeting; 6 per group
Middle School, High School, College, & Adult groups.
Telehealth For Clients in California and Vermont.

I've created a flyer to be shared with anyone interested. I am licensed in California and Vermont and can help clients from there.

Dates and times will be created once I can organize them around extracurriculars and school times.

Book a free consultation to learn more!

Website: https://www.videogamecounseling.com/
Email:[email protected]

05/16/2022

Gaming is actually good for your brain! In moderation, adolescent and young adult gamers, "were better able to switch between visual tasks, divide their attention between different moving objects and remember the location of hidden objects."

Gaming has cognitive benefits when teenagers and young adults play in moderation, though gamers who take it to an extreme perform worse in some tasks.